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Column: status with a course

5 steps± 4 minVideoVerified 22 Oct 2026
  1. Step 1 · Open your development environment
  2. Step 2 · Add a status column
  3. Step 3 · Fix the course
  4. Step 4 · A new row starts by itself
  5. Step 5 · Only the steps that are allowed

A Status column has fixed values and a course: at which value a new row starts and which step may follow which. Flow guards that course for everyone (people, workflows and your API) and writes every status change to the audit log. You follow requests for a test ride.

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Step 1 / 5

Open your development environment

In the portal, under Environments, click Development, and there Open. Flow opens in a new tab and you are signed in straight away.

  1. Click Development
Open your development environment · Click Development
  1. Click Open ↗
Open your development environment · Click Open ↗
Step 2 / 5

Add a status column

Open the table, go to Columns, click ＋ Column and choose Status under Type. Type the stages as fixed values, in the order they usually come in. A Flow block appears straight away.

  1. Click the table ‘Test rides (status)’
Add a status column · Click the table ‘Test rides (status)’
  1. Click Columns
Add a status column · Click Columns
  1. Click ＋ Column
Add a status column · Click ＋ Column
  1. In Name, type stage
  2. In Type, choose Status
  3. In Fixed values, type requested, confirmed, ridden, cancelled
Add a status column · In Name, type stage; In Type, choose Status; In Fixed values, type requested, confirmed, ridden, cancelled
Step 3 / 5

Fix the course

Starts at shows the first value: every new row starts there. For each stage, click where it may go next. A stage with nothing clicked is free (may go anywhere); a final status means: nothing after it.

  1. Click requested → confirmed
Fix the course · Click requested → confirmed
  1. Click requested → cancelled
Fix the course · Click requested → cancelled
  1. Click confirmed → ridden
Fix the course · Click confirmed → ridden
  1. Click confirmed → cancelled
Fix the course · Click confirmed → cancelled
  1. Click ridden: final
Fix the course · Click ridden: final
  1. Click cancelled: final
Fix the course · Click cancelled: final
Fix the course · The course: requested → confirmed → ridden, and cancelling is possible until the ride.
  1. Click Save structure
Fix the course · Click Save structure
Fix the course · The notice Table saved.
Step 4 / 5

A new row starts by itself

Under Data you do not choose the status of a new row: it starts at the first stage.

  1. Click Data
A new row starts by itself · Click Data
  1. In customer, type Mr Fisher
A new row starts by itself · In customer, type Mr Fisher
  1. Click Add
A new row starts by itself · Click Add
A new row starts by itself · The request, at stage requested.
Step 5 / 5

Only the steps that are allowed

The list in the row only offers the stages allowed from here: from requested you cannot go straight to ridden. Choose confirmed and click Save.

  1. In stage, choose confirmed
Only the steps that are allowed · In stage, choose confirmed
  1. Click Save
Only the steps that are allowed · Click Save
Only the steps that are allowed · The notice Row saved.

This guide was carried out step by step on 22 Oct 2026 by an automated test on Flow (version 3e563176).